Cynopsis: Kids!
1/04/07
Good morning. It’s Thursday, January 4, 2007 and this is your first early morning Kids! briefing.
With the help of ticket sales from Ice Age: The Meltdown, X-Men: The Last Stand, Eragon among others, Fox has moved the movie industry bar a little higher by setting an all time high of $3.6 billion in worldwide box office earnings for 2006.
Black Family Channel will debut Robert Townsend’s World According to Kids today at 8p. The show is filmmaker Robert Townsend’s take on the classic TV series Kids Say the Darndest Things. The show will be hosted by Charles Saunders.
Blue’s Room, the new live-action Blue’s Clues spin-off series, will premiere on Nick Jr. Friday, January 26, at 10a. The 10 episode series features Blue, her little brother Sprinkles as puppets and human Joe (Donovan Patton) in Blue’s playroom where the characters all turn and talk directly to camera encouraging kids at home to interact to help build their literacy skills. The network will premiere a new episode of Blue’s Room each Friday at 10a through February 23. The first five episodes of Blue’s Room debuted as 30 min specials.
Multiplatform support for the show includes:
- The January 26 Blue’s Room episode will be available, following its bow on the network, at Nick Jr. Video.
- VOD windowing of episodes will be available as of Monday, January 29 on Comcast, Charter, Cablevision, Verizon FiOS and Cox.
From January 30:
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- Clips from the debut episode will be available via various mobile carriers
- A new DVD titled, Blue’s Room: Knights of the Snack Table, featuring a new episode of Blue’s Room as well as two episodes of Blue’s Clues will be released by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment
Animated series Chaotic rejoins the 4KidsTV lineup beginning this Saturday, January 6, 2007 at 11:30a. Initially introduced to the block during September 2006, Chaotic returns with 40 new episodes and takes up its official place in the 4KidsTV lineup. The first two episodes of Chaotic will air on January 6 and 13 respectively, with new episodes bowing from January 21. The animated series will support the upcoming launch of the Chaotic Trading Card Game in the first part of this year. 4Kids is a co-rights holder of the Chaotic Card Game along with Chaotic USA Entertainment.
Turner’s Adult Swim has inked a theatrical distribution deal with First Look Pictures for its upcoming animated movie Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. Scheduled for release in March 2007, this will be Adult Swim’s first feature produced under the Williams Street banner. Aqua Teen Colon Movie Film For Theaters is an action-adventure story that reveals the mysterious origin of its stars Meatwad, Frylock and Master Shake. Written, produced and directed by Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, the two also reprise their acting roles with Maiellaro as the voices of Err, Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past and Willis lending his voice to Carl, Meatwad and Ignignokt.
Teen targeted network The N has launched The N Mobile on Sprint. The N Mobile offers Sprint Vision and Power Vision subscribers video clips, shorts and behind the scenes footage of the network’s programming content for an additional $4.95/month. Refreshed weekly, The N Mobile will feature content from its series including Degrassi: The Next Generation, South of Nowhere and Beyond the Break.
Kylin Kids Learning Chinese, co-produced by KyLinTV and Hunan Golden Eagle Broadcasting System, launched Monday on KyLinTV. The show includes original and creative Chinese instruction for youngsters on both Chinese and American culture based off of an IPTV platform. The 300 episodes offered cover Chinese characters, encyclopedia, idioms, nursery rhymes, and other content.
MARKETING/LICENSING
HIT Entertainment has extended the partnership for its property Angelina Ballerina with the American Ballet Theatre through 2008. Angelina Ballerina will continue to be featured as part of ABTKids, a dance program designed to help introduce kids and families to the world of dance and ballet, including at a range of performance centers and opera houses nationwide. At the same time HIT and Fox Home Entertainment are slated to release of Angelina Ballerina: Angelina Follows Her Dreams, a new Direct-TO-DVD, this April 2007. Additionally, Penguin Young Readers Group will release more than fifteen Angelina Ballerina titles in 2007, including this month’s US release of My First Ballet Class and the new book Let’s Dance in stores in May.
Mattel and AWR Music Productions LLC will launch the global concert production of Barbie at the Symphony with a premiere performance by the Columbus Symphony in Columbus, Ohio, on February 10, 2007, at 2p. The concerts will feature scores from the six Barbie movies including Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Swan Lake, Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, and Dvorak’s Symphony from the New World while scenes from the movies play on a screen above the orchestra. Additional performances scheduled to-date include the Detroit Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony, with additional dates to be announced for North America, South America, Japan, South Korea, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Produced by Mattel Worldwide Live Entertainment and AWR Music Productions.
EXECUTIVE MOVES
Educational Adventures a US based edutainment company, has established Educational Adventures International (EAI), and has named Luca Bentivoglio as President/CEO. The new venture will be headquarters in LA. Educational Adventures is a multi-media edutainment company focused on the safety and well being of kids, and produces the animated series Danger Rangers, which currently airs on Public TV and a number of VOD services. Luca will be responsible for global co-productions, acquisitions and international television/DVD distribution and merchandise licensing on behalf of the company’s Danger Rangers franchise as well as its other children’s brands currently in development. Luca’s previous experience includes senior level positions with Warner Brothers, Telemundo, Univision and Latino Public Broadcasting. This past fall, he launched VOCES, the first Latino anthology series on Public TV. He will report to Mike Moore, Educational Adventures, Inc.’s CEO.
Gary Dale has been appointed COO, Rockstar Games, which is a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Most recently Dale served as the European Managing Director for Capcom for three years. Previously, he was President/Interactive Software and Video Division, BMG Entertainment until Take-Two acquired BMG Interactive in spring 1998. During his time with BMG, Dale oversaw the release of many games, including Grand Theft Auto from DMA Design, which later became Rockstar North.
Fox has appointed Mike Baron as Director/Brand Licensing and Business Development. Baron will oversee licensing properties including Fox Sports, Speed Channel, and IGN’s multiple properties. He joins the group from Fox Sports and Fox Sports Net where he headed-up both licensing and promotional efforts. Prior to toiling for Fox Sports Baron was President, Eidolon Global LLC.
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question: What cast member of CBS’ Yes, Dear was the host of the kid’s game show Guts? MIKE O’MALLEY who plays Jimmy Hughes on Yes Dear, was also the host of Nickelodeon’s Guts in 1992.
Today’s Trivia Question: On “Life With Derrick” how many kids are in the combined family? (click here) with your answer and be sure to include your name, company, city and time zone. Unofficial rules: Only the second four correct answers from each time zone will be mentioned; and once you’ve been mentioned in any of the Cynopsis editions, you can’t be mentioned again that calendar week.)
Later — Gwen
Gwen Billings for Cynopsis Kids!
1.04.07
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